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Polypropylene Nanofibers

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This chapter discusses the scope of the study; research concepts and hypotheses; aims and objectives; and contribution of the research. In this study, nanofibres were fabricated by two melt processes: melt electrospinning and meltblowing. The nanofibres fabricated by these processes were characterised by various techniques to understand the fibre morphology, thermal, crystalline and mechanical properties.

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Nayak, R. (2017). Introduction. In: Polypropylene Nanofibers. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61458-8_1

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